Glenn Becker wrote: > i'm at such a low level with this stuff that i am unclear on what DNS > hosting 'really is.' :-) sometimes i don't know how i do anything ...
LOL - it's OK - we were all there once. Basically a DNS server converts 'machinename.domainname.tld' into an ip address. They're basically an intermediary between the computer (that only wants to deal with ips) and you (who probably finds it easier to remember www.atomcam.com than an ip address). Now - someone is hosting your DNS services for atomcam.com - from the whois database, I get the following: [ rest of whois query snipped for brevity ] Domain servers in listed order: NS1.WARPED.NET 207.126.104.14 NS2.WARPED.NET 209.249.126.8 NS3.WARPED.NET 208.62.64.130 NS4.WARPED.NET 209.249.76.200 So it looks like Warped.net is doing your DNS hosting, as well as the web hosting you mentioned earlier. So, they're the ones you'd want to get in contact with about adding the 'A' record for your new machine =) Depending on their policies, they may or may not charge you for this - you'll have to check with them on that. > and i also find myself wondering about the apache setup i currently have > running (mostly for the sake of future experimentation - i haven't done > anything with it yet)... under the setup you describe, would it have a > non-numeric address for the outside world? it couldn't be www.atomcam.com > because that's the wife's site! The short answer is yes. The long answer is that once your machine has an 'A' record associated with its ip address, anything that currently works by ip (like web/ftp/telnet/ssh/etc...) will work with the name you've given it in the 'A' record (what you tell the machine itself it's hostname is really doesn't matter, except locally). So, if you have them set up an 'A' record for 'debian.atomcam.com', then when you put http://debian.atomcam.com into your web browser, it should try to connect to apache on your machine =) The same goes for other services like ftp or telnet. > typing in the numeric ip or localhost gets me to the default page fine, of > course. maybe i need to read up on DNS ... :-S Not a bad idea - although the documention can get a bit confusing, so be forewarned =) -b3 > At 11:07am on Fri, 9 Feb 2001, b3 wrote: > > > What needs to happen for this to work, is that you need to have the 'A' > > record for 'debian.atomcam.com' pointed to the ip of the machine in > > question, in your DNS configs =) I'm doing the same thing with a new > > domain I registered through Dotster (who does user-controlled DNS > > hosting for an extra $10/year) - I don't have 'www' defined yet, nor do > > I have an 'MX' record (still negotiating the hosting details) - but the > > 'A' records I set up for my laptop and desktop machine are working > > beautifully. > > > > I'd get in contact with whomever does your DNS hosting, and ask them to > > add the record for you - it shouldn't be a big deal in most cases. > > > > Then, once you have name resolution, set up sendmail/exim on that > > machine to report 'atomcam.com' as the domain, rather than > > 'localdomain'. (someone posted yesterday with how to do this in exim) > > > > Hopefully this will help! > > > > -b3 > >
